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# langues — French to English

How French *langues* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: langues (68 800). By style: everyday 520 · literary 1 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 3 146 · legal and administrative 7 257 · UN documents 57 846.

## languages

Used about 64 058 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 520 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 3 080 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 199 · UN documents ≈ 54 231). Forms: language, languages.

- J'aime apprendre les **langues**.
  I like learning **languages**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Sharaf78 · checked, community translation · [\#1568731](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1568731) [\#6463290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6463290))

- Car ils les entendaient parler en **langues** et glorifier Dieu.
  For they heard them speaking in other **languages** and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:46)

- 2001 : Année européenne des **langues**
  2001: European Year of **Languages**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 41034)

- La langue ou les **langues** utilisées dans le cadre de la ressource.
  The **language**(s) used within the resource.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1625558)

- L &apos; information à communiquer dans d &apos; autres **langues**
  Information in other **languages**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 6043269)

## official

Used about 2 713 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 302 · UN documents ≈ 2 410). Meaning: [official in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/official/).

- Les autorités compétentes transmettent les informations dans au moins une des **langues** officielles de l’Union.
  The competent authorities shall submit the information in at least one **official** language of the Union.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5353972)

- L &apos; État partie est également prié de rendre publiques les présentes constatations, de les faire traduire dans les **langues** officielles et de les diffuser largement.
  The State party is also requested to publish the Committee &apos; s Views and to have them translated into the **official** language and widely distributed.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24162633)

- Le certificat est établi dans la ou les **langues** officielles de l'État membre de délivrance et en anglais.
  The certificate shall be drawn up in at least one of the **official** language(s) of the Member State of issue and in English.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 628694)

- Par exemple, lorsque l &apos; analphabétisme est largement répandu ou lorsque des minorités n &apos; ont pas une compréhension suffisante des **langues** officielles utilisées par les autorités publiques.
  For example when illiteracy is widespread or when minorities do not adequately understand the (**official**) language(s) used by the public authorities.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19667816)

## authentic

Used about 756 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 756). Meaning: [authentic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/authentic/).

- (Les textes en **langues** française et néerlandaise sont les seuls faisant foi.)
  (Only the Dutch and French texts are **authentic**)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3839428)

- (Les textes en **langues** lituanienne et slovaque sont les seuls faisant foi.)
  (Only the Lithuanian and Slovak texts are **authentic**)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1375430)

- (Les textes en **langues** bulgare, espagnole, grecque, française, italienne et portugaise sont les seuls faisant foi.)
  (Only the Bulgarian, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish texts are **authentic**)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2033866)

- (Les textes en **langues** allemande, anglaise, danoise, espagnole, finnoise, française, grecque, hongroise, italienne, lettone, néerlandaise, polonaise, slovène et suédoise sont les seuls faisant foi.)
  (Only the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are **authentic**)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2807079)

- (Les textes en **langues** allemande, anglaise, bulgare, espagnole, finnoise, française, grecque, hongroise, italienne, lettone, polonaise, portugaise, slovène et suédoise sont les seuls faisant foi)
  (Only the Bulgarian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish texts are **authentic**)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4149051)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Leur gosier est un sépulcre ouvert; Ils se servent de leurs **langues** pour tromper; Ils ont sous leurs lèvres un venin d’aspic;
  “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:13)

- Des **langues**, semblables à des **langues** de feu, leur apparurent, séparées les unes des autres, et se posèrent sur chacun d’eux.
  Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:3)

- On ne parvenait pas plus à s'orienter dans la voirie qu'à s'entendre dans la ville; en haut l'inintelligible, en bas l'inextricable; sous la confusion des **langues** il y avait la confusion des caves; Dédale doublait Babel.
  One could no more find one’s bearings in the sewer than one could understand one’s position in the city; above the unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27388)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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